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A pixelated image shows a couple embracing, with vertical blue text reading "I LOVE YOU" on the left side.

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A pixelated image shows a couple embracing, with vertical blue text reading "I LOVE YOU" on the left side.

A pixelated image shows a couple embracing, with vertical blue text reading "I LOVE YOU" on the left side. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text on left
  • central figures
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel icon. On the left edge, four vertically stacked cyan-blue block letters spell out 'I', 'O', 'V', 'E' (the 'U' is missing). The central area shows two figures: one with light brown hair in a white and gray striped shirt holding another figure with long blonde hair wearing a pink top. Both figures are positioned closely together, suggesting an embrace or kiss. The background is dark, composed of black and brown pixels. The right side includes partial white and gray shapes that may represent furniture or objects.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a couple embracing, with vertical blue text reading "I LOVE YOU" on the left side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • couple embracing pixel art
  • I LOVE YOU text icon
  • blue vertical text buddy icon
  • striped shirt pink top embrace

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality, with visible pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • I
  • O
  • V
  • E

Visually Supported Entities

  • man
  • woman

Wordwall

  • vertical blue text
  • I O V E letters
  • couple embracing
  • light brown hair
  • blonde hair
  • striped shirt
  • pink top
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080331205222881045487
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/56/56b04d3b7491b190f665d3b9018379b0f8fa37d96457b32129d4f91050430e85.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
56b04d3b7491b190
SHA-256
56b04d3b7491b190f665d3b9018379b0f8fa37d96457b32129d4f91050430e85
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082695

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a couple embracing, with vertical blue text reading "I LOVE YOU" on the left side.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:55 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,893 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 768

Review tags

  • embracing (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • cyan blue (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • furniture partial (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • man (subject, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)
  • woman (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embracing
  • holding

Colors

  • cyan-blue
  • black
  • brown
  • white
  • gray
  • pink
  • light brown
  • blonde

Composition

  • vertical text on left
  • central figures
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel icon. On the left edge, four vertically stacked cyan-blue block letters spell out 'I', 'O', 'V', 'E' (the 'U' is missing). The central area shows two figures: one with light brown hair in a white and gray striped shirt holding another figure with long blonde hair wearing a pink top. Both figures are positioned closely together, suggesting an embrace or kiss. The background is dark, composed of black and brown pixels. The right side includes partial white and gray shapes that may represent furniture or objects.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a couple embracing, with vertical blue text reading "I LOVE YOU" on the left side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • romantic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • couple embracing pixel art
  • I LOVE YOU text icon
  • blue vertical text buddy icon
  • striped shirt pink top embrace

Objects

  • furniture (partial)

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality, with visible pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • two people
  • man
  • woman

Visible Text

  • I
  • O
  • V
  • E

Visually Supported Entities

  • man
  • woman

Wordwall

  • vertical blue text
  • I O V E letters
  • couple embracing
  • light brown hair
  • blonde hair
  • striped shirt
  • pink top
  • dark background
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20080331205222881045487
Archive entry
20080331205222881045487.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

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